Famous Art Movements

2. Exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art, and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'oeil frescoes.
5. Advocates for the importance of subjectivity, imagination, and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.
8. Reflects influences of an increased awareness of nature, a revival of classical learning, and a more individualistic view of man.
13. Art made of durable clay forms and stone carvings.
14. A time where art was revolutionized in the form of statue in Greece.
15. Uses visible brush strokes, open composition, and ordinary subjects.
16. Uses popular culture and mass media to create art for every day consumption.
17. Figurative sculpture in terracotta (especially life-size on sarcophagi or temples), wall-painting and metalworking.
18. Has a tendency to move away from the narrative arts toward abstraction.

1. Emphasizes geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or modified color.
3. Geometric Abstraction.
4. The general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts.
6. Began in opposition of the Rococo style.
7. Exaggerates proportions often resulting in compositions that are asymmetrical or unnaturally elegant.
9. A dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that continue the challenging of boundaries.
10. Unrealistic and idealized versions of the word; used highly decorated tombs to prepare for the afterlife.
11. Copied Greek precedent in sculpture and painting.
12. Emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values.